ACUFO:

ACUFO is my comprehensive catalog of cases of encounters between aircraft and UFOs, whether they are “explained” or “unexplained”.

The ACUFO catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file.

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Europe, between 1944 and 1945:

Case number:

ACUFO-1944-00-00-EUROPE-6

Summary:

In his 1974 book "UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors", U.S. ufologist Raymond E. Fowler told that he recently talked to an airline pilot who had seen a number of UFOs during World War II. The pilot told him that on several occasions, his flight encountered hovering formations of aluminum-colored balls while on the way to bomb targets within Germany, and that many pilots were reporting them and assumed that they were some experimental device sent aloft by the Germans to confuse Allied radar.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	Between 1944 and 1945
Time:	?
Duration:	?
First known report date:	1974
Reporting delay:	3 decades.

Geographical data:

Country:
State/Department:
City or place:	Europe

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	Several.
Number of known witnesses:	1
Number of named witnesses:	0

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Personal account to ufologist.
Visibility conditions:	?
UFO observed:	Yes.
UFO arrival observed:	?
UFO departure observed:	?
UFO action:	Hovering.
Witnesses action:
Photographs:	No.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	Radar jamming devices.

Classifications:

Sensors:	[X] Visual: Several. [ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [ ] Photo: [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages:
Hynek:	?
Armed / unarmed:	Armed, machine guns.
Reliability 1-3:	2
Strangeness 1-3:	2
ACUFO:	Insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. rfr1:] RAYMOND E. FOWLER:

Recently, I talked to an airline pilot who had seen a number of these objects during World War II. He told me that on several occasions, his flight would encounter hovering formations of aluminum-colored balls while on the way to bomb targets within Germany. He said that many pilots were reporting them and assumed that they were some experimental device sent aloft by the Germans to confuse Allied radar.

Aircraft information:

The report only indicates that the aircraft were American bombers.

Discussion:

Of course the information is insufficient; we can only note that this is another report of aluminum-colored balls hanging in the sky on the European Theater of Operations seen by U.S. Army Air Forces bombers crew during their raids - Press reports of the time called them "silver balls" or "floating silver balls".

Evaluation:

Insufficient information.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[rfr1] * "UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, book by Raymond E. Fowler, Prentice-Hall publishers, USA, 1974.
[rfr1] * "UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, book by Raymond E. Fowler, iUniverse publishers, USA, page 234, 1974.

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	July 17, 2024	Creation, [rfr1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	July 17, 2024	First published.

This page was last updated on July 17, 2024.